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B.I.B. said:

But what if they managed to convince a lot of the third world to use their standards. In another thread I read how the West are starting to make a play for Africa first through apologizing for their misdeeds. Germany has offered a billion dollars to Namibia to develop infrastructure no doubt to European standards. France Britain Portugal could also follow suit.

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@B.I.B. bro, for us here in the developing world the more the merrier but first we will ask a very important question IS THERE A CONDITIONALITY or A STRING ATTACH, we're skeptical since independence the word assistance is taking something back more than what is given.

B.I.B. said:

But what if they managed to convince a lot of the third world to use their standards. In another thread I read how the West are starting to make a play for Africa first through apologizing for their misdeeds. Germany has offered a billion dollars to Namibia to develop infrastructure no doubt to European standards. France Britain Portugal could also follow suit.

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Ah I see you have also noticed the EUpoors strategy on Africa...

They will develop Africa with their standards and then "soft" exclude Chinese companies by saying that they dont follow their standards

They have already started doing this inside the EU. They are now talking about excluding companies or heavily taxing them (i.e tariffs) if their countries are polluting (Chinese companies). Also if they are using forced labour (bye bye Chinese solar sales)

B.I.B. said:

But what if they managed to convince a lot of the third world to use their standards. In another thread I read how the West are starting to make a play for Africa first through apologizing for their misdeeds. Germany has offered a billion dollars to Namibia to develop infrastructure no doubt to European standards. France Britain Portugal could also follow suit.

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They're only apologizing because of China. History is repeating itself because the West decolonized after WWII because of the Chinese communist revolution in 1949. They were weak because of WWII and they couldn't stop losing China to the communists. They saw that could happen around the world and they would lose their colonies so they had "relinquish" them or lose them in a revolution but of course they still needed control. That's why during the Cold War the democratic West supported dictators in control of their former colonies.

The West is afraid of OBOR because it's a bunch of countries that the West ignored because they saw them of little value. Black Lives Matter has reached Europe. The world is filled with countries that love/hate the West. If the West wants to convince them, let them try. What are they going to do? Open their markets to foreign products from Africa? Countries in Africa are growing because of China doing business in Africa. The West regularly complains how China beats them in buying African resources meaning China pays more than they will ever do. The more advanced African countries become, the more they'll want to do business with China. The West isn't going to open their economies to Africa needed for higher end growth. In order for the West to beat China in Africa they have pay the price and they've shown they're not willing to do that. And besides Africans aren't feeling welcome in Europe which is a sign how they see Africans these days. Just look what happens at football matches. And China can help African countries get the best deal possible from the West meaning make it them cost more.

Heliox said:

Fail to see the utility of this too.

The value of trains on tracks is the rolling resistance is significantly lower than rubber tires on road. Hence moving loads over distance is much more energy efficient on tracks than road.

This seems nothing more than a long articulated bus in another skin? Except now, they are melding self driving tech into it. It's still an articulated bus. Same pro/cons as any autonomous electric road vehicle, not that of a tracked train.

Also, beware if it is too long - it's gonna mess up road traffic that it's sharing space with.

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That is exactly the advantage of such vehicle. See the wiki quotation of tram

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The rolling resistance argument is right, but it is not the reason for a trackless tram. It is the higher capacity than bus.

Being too long is not more a disadvantage than a tracked tram in the same length.

B.I.B. said:

But what if they managed to convince a lot of the third world to use their standards. In another thread I read how the West are starting to make a play for Africa first through apologizing for their misdeeds. Germany has offered a billion dollars to Namibia to develop infrastructure no doubt to European standards. France Britain Portugal could also follow suit.

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They can not. An apology under pressure and coming too late is convincing nobody because everybody knows why. Imagine Chinese and Koreans would believe the Japanese "apology" after decades of Japanese resistance? Hasn't Namibia rejected the late coming German "apology"? Actually Germany does not call "compensation" but "reconciliation development" pretty much like Japan's "aid program" rather than "compensation" to Korea and China. Africans are not stupid to be fooled.

Pls no more Mr.Xi!

• Chinese leader promises to boost investment and free scientists from bureaucracy as Joe Biden seeks heavy increase in US research budget

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China should be prepared for “unprecedented” scientific and technological competition, which has become the “the main battleground” of global power rivalry

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“We must not allow unnecessary distractions, such as meaningless functions, events and administrative paperwork, to suck up the time of our scientists and researchers. We need to reduce bureaucracy,” Xi said.

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Chinese researchers had long been evaluated on the quantity of research published and the status of the journals they were published in, and efforts to overhaul the evaluation system only started in 2018.

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Reform, reform, reform. Too slow. The scientists face extreme pressure to have many papers published.
How can you create innovation if you pressure your scientists to publish meaningless papers just to keep up with the benchmarked numbers?

Scientists need time for their research. They dont need to publish papers every 2-3 months. Have them stay locked up for a year or 2 and then start talking about quantity of papers.

Some changes have been implemented but many more need to done.

voyager1 said:

Ah I see now. Another uninformed person making claims about things he doesn't understand.

How about making some research on what fusion actually is?
That you are comparing it to J20 and Mars landing shows that you probably dodnt even know what fusion is

I recommend starting with fission and then transitioning to fusion

J20 and other 5th gen fighter jets are comically easy in comparison

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You have stated your opinion which is fine, I can see your point, but please don't go around attacking or belittling others who prefered to be different. No one here have any inside info on China fusion research.

voyager1 said:

China is full of these slogans which are meaningless without action

Just check a normal regulation and you will see these stupid slogans.
Its like the Gov cant function without making a slogan

And also lets not forget the "Chinese Standards 2035" stupid stupid. Now the West has already started talking about it and countering this strategy

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Announce or not The US semiconductor association will know .So it is irrelevant whether China announce or not . If I am not wrong it is the head of US semiconductor association that bitch about China making huge investment in semiconductor FAB .And lobby hard for congress to thwart China's effort. Those thing you cannot hide since they bought machinery from the west! they will know